105 MAXDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



black: abdomen black : legs fulvous : H/i/tnno? distinctly thickened towards 

 the apex, and entirely picenus. 



Also found within the metropolitan district. 



Sp. It. pullus. Afer, nitidiis, anicnnarum ariiculo ■primo, pcdihns, elyirorumque 



. apicihus riifis. (Long. corp. 22 Hn.) 



Ta. pullus. Ch-avcnhorst.Steph. Caial. 273. No. 2875. 



Black, shining^ glabrous : structure, colour, ike, as in the following species ; 



but the basal Joint of the antenna: entirely \}a\e ferruginous. 

 Like its ally, it varies in having the elytra somewhat irregularly, but slightly, 



rufescent on the shoulder. 



Not uncommon in fungi, &c., within the metropolitan district. 

 " Swansea, in cow-dung." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 15. rufipes. Ater, vitidus, pedibus rufis, antennis fusco-piceis. (Long. 



corp. 2§ lin.) 

 Sta. rufipes. Linm: — Ta. rufipes. Steph. Catal. 273. No. 2876. 



Black, shining, glabrous, rather smooth : head subrhomboidal : thorax with 

 the posterior margin obscurely rufescent : elytra black, very thickly but 

 minutely punctulated, the apex slightly rufescent: abdomen finely punc- 

 tured, with diverging hairs at the apex: legs i-ufous, or rufo-castaneous : 

 antennae ra.t\\er long, slightly thickened exteriorly, entirely pitchy-brown. 



Elytra sometimes rufescent, or with a patch of that tint on the shoulder; both 

 probably the result of immaturity. 



Abundant within the metropolitan district, in old wood, fungi, &c. 

 '* Common near Swansea." — L. W. Dillwyn., Esq. 



Sp. 16. limbosus. Niger, nitidus, pedibus ferrugineis, elytris fermgineis, 

 Umbo Jlavescenti, ahdomine segmentis intermediis rufescentibus. (Long. corp. 

 2i lin.) 



Ta. limbosus. Kirby MSS.— Steph. Catal. 273. No. 2877. 



Black, subglabrous, shining, minutely but thickly punctured : head subrhom- 

 boidal : thorax slightly bordered with reddish behind, and on the sides : 



■ elytra flavescent, with the disc c?«i%-ferruginous : abdomen twice as long as 

 the elytra, with the three intermediate segments and the extreme tip narrowly 

 edged ivith ferruginous ; the sides and apex with divergent hairs: legs pale 

 ferruginous : antennae slightly thickened exteriorly, dusky-ferruginous. 



Not very common near London : it occurs, but sparingly, also 

 in Suffolk. 



Sp. 17. intermedins. Jter,'nitidus, thorace immaculato, elytris pedibusque fusco- 



castaneis. (Long. corp. SJ lin.) 

 Ta. intermedins. Kirby MSS.— Steph. Catal. 274. No. 2878. 



